April 28, 2014 - Lot's of Learning

Most of Megan’s letter this week was excerpts of what she wrote to her mission president.

An excerpt from my letter to President this week:

"I am just learning so much right now. I am finding little bits of hidden treasures and knowledge, just like we are promised we will find if are faithful. The funny thing is that they are coming from places I wouldn't always expect, which is teaching me something too. I used to think that if I wanted to learn anything about the gospel, it would have to happen from 8 to 9 in the morning but now I am seeing how that is just the start to a full day of learning! So much of what I am learning is coming from the example of and study with my companion, from the insights of members and investigators, and from my mom's weekly updates on her garden. I'll be honest, I used to hate those updates, but man gardening is the best analogy for missionary work! She loves those little plants so much and does everything she possibly can that they may grow and give forth fruit, and if they don't grow, if they aren't strong enough, she doesn't get mad at them, she just keeps trying. She rests them for a bit and tries again in the next season. She is happy with whatever little fruit or vegetable they give, even if it is not very big. I guess that is how I should be with my investigators: I should be so proud of every little progress they make and not try to force them to do anything, even if it is for their good. At the same time, that is how God is with me I am learning. He is happy with whatever good fruit I produce, no matter how big or small. He just loves me and loves that I am trying."

Mom, thank you for your garden updates. Keep them comin! Turns out that is what I need each week, well with the other stuff you write me of course. Yeah, just don't change.

Another excerpt (yes I am just being lazy):
"I have been trying to put this whole thing into practice and just focus on God's will and not my fears, concerns, or doubts. So when we were thinking about Lucia and what to do for her lesson this weekend, I had a weird thought to invite this one member. I thought it was a little crazy, and so did Sorella Knudsen, but we called her up and she was miraculously free. She came and we had our first member present lesson with Lucia and we taught the restoration for about the third time, and you know what? We found out Lucia didn't know what apostasy meant! Wow, that was a shock. And it wasn't just that. There were other questions we had never heard and with the help of this member we were able to clear up some of her fears and worries, and she said she would read and pray to know if this message is true. It was such a miracle. God really is happy if we just try and forget about our silly selves and problems and just get lost in His work. I am feeling the Spirit working in me more this week and I love it! And it is happening to Angela too! She finally said the prayer at the end of our last lesson, and actually prayed right there in front of us for a change of heart. Last night she called with this awesome miracle of how she got this really important phone call from her son-in-law who they haven't heard from in 11 years. She said it was such a miracle that after she hung up she was just so happy and the only thing she could think to do was to pray to thank the Lord for this blessing. Presidente, Angela doesn't pray! She always tells us she has nothing to be grateful for... CHANGE OF HEART!!! It is so happening right before our eyes, and I am just so grateful the Lord let me be here to see it!"

This week has been lots of learning and it has been awesome. It sure is hard to learn lots of new stuff at the same time, but I really wouldn't trade it for anything else. It would be way easier to be at home and just worry about school and stuff and not peoples' salvation, but I can't say that I would want to trade it. People's lives are changing because they read this Book of Mormon that I give them. They are becoming happier than they ever thought possible because they are repenting and exercising faith in God. That just isn't something you can give up! Yeah, it is hard to get them there and to keep doing it day after day, but it's so AWESOME. I just have to keep working and keep going, even when I REALLY don't want to :) ESPECIALLY when I really don't want to.

I love you all and I hope this week is awesome and that you smile and make someone's day!

Shout out to Tia Dali for her awesome letters that make me laugh and cry and want to be so much better!! I love you/thank you so much!!!!!!!


Sorella Patterson

April 14 and 21, 2014 - Happy Easter!

April 21st:
Cara famiglia e cari amici,
BUONA PASQUA!!!
I hope this Easter has been super awesome and that everyone ate too much candy and then pndered on how incredible it is that Jesus Christ was resurrected and that He rose and lives and guides His church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. What a beautiful wonderful fact and event.

This Easter the famiglia Murgia invited us over. There were about 15 of us all together. We ate pasta al forno (my favorite thing here besides gelato) then lamb, and lamb insides (not my favorite thing here...). After pranzo, we read in Luke when Jesus is resurected and then we kinda all shared our testimonies of Him and how He helps us even today and how we have learned so much from Him and just how much He loves us. It was really cool because one aunt there isn't a member and she got to see how strong of testimonies her family has and I am sure she felt in that moment the Spirit of God and His love for her!

Yesterday was another hoilday: Pasquetta! I don't know what or why it is, but it meant deep cleaning day for us! I took the bathroom and basically had my hands in bleach all day, but that bathroom is shining now! Then we went and saw Fulvia, a member here who also happens to know Debbie's gramma in Bitonto and tried to call her while I ws there, but she didn't answer. Oh well. Next time :)




The work is kind of not doing the best that is has, but we are trying real hard. Angela is doing great and is getting over lots of hard things, slowly. But that is generally how it works, slowly but surely. Pray that she will have the mighty change of heart that Alma talks about. She is doing so good and we are so happy for the changes she is already making.

Well fam, sorry it's a short one. I hope you have a great week and know that I love you all!!

Sorella Patterson

April 14th:

Friends and Fam!!

Not much time and not much to report, but two investigators broke up with us in the same night and as good ex's we took flowers to one who lives nearby. Don't know if she got them yet... but we still love them both a tons and while it is definitely sad and hard to  watch people reject the happiest thing in the world, we know God will give them another chance. He loves them even more than we do!

We have decided to focus more on finding families. It is kinda hard, but nothing that is really worth it is too easy, eh? 

We got a new branch President yesterday, and accidently stood up the Stake President at a teaching appointment... But he told us there is always repentence ;) Great guy! Haha, we all laughed about it don't worry.

In other news, the weather is absolutely amazing. Sassari is supposed to have the best climate in all of Europe. I believe it. 

Well, this week is going to be awesome, I know it! I love you all with all my heart!!

Sorella Patterson

April 6, 2014 - Conference Sunday

Dear Mom:

ANDREA GOT BAPTIZED.

It was incredible.

Andrea at his baptism

Andrea is the only member in his fam. It is hard for him, but he is taking it all so well and with so much faith. He is just what this branch needs too, a fresh young soul with lots of love and energy. He got interviewed yesterday and will be receiving the Priesthood soon. He is already preparing for a mission. What a superstar :)

Conference was awesome!! Such inspired men, ya know? They just always know what I need to hear. It's like they read my mind and my journal and wrote their talks based on that. Seriously. They are so cool and they just GET us humans and what we need to be happy. I hope that I can put into practice some of the awesome stuff I learned this time!! I have not seen it all yet, and some was in Italian, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I understood. Progress has been made :)

Love your analogy about trimming things to help them grow. So true. President Waddoups told me that one time in an email when I made a comment about how much I have moved around and all the companions I have gone through. I think he said change is the spice of life or something. Haha, he is so awesome and so inspired. 

 

The Sardegna countryside,
as seen from a high speed train.

Okay, so I LOVED Uchtodorf’s talk about being grateful. That is seriously one of the best ways to be happy! I testify to what he said, that we will really feel more joy and peace if we can be grateful in our situations. That is one of my goals this transfer, to be more grateful for my incredible blessings. I have been so blessed to be called here and to serve with an awesome companion (tons of awesome companions and sisters and elders) and to have the support of my whole family and to have met and helped so many of these precious Italians. God and I have a really special place in our heart for these Italians. They sure are awesome. They are talkers, but they are awesome ;)

If you missed any of conference, go to LDS.org and watch it! If you didn't catch any of it, go to LDS.org and watch it! I will be :) Thank you all for your incredible examples to me and for all of the love and encouragement you give me. I could not do this without you! "A mission is a family affair!"

Love,

Sorella Patterson

 

March 17 and 24, 2014 - Catching up here

From Megan last week:

March 17, 2014:

MOM!!!

Man, I just teared up through your whole email. I bet you probably will too now, haha. We are just two peas in a pod! Did you see how your discourse on gardening applies to missionary work? Probably you already did, but this is just how my mind works right now. It is just the exact same thing. You said you feel peace and serenity when you walk through your garden and watch things grow. That is how I feel when I listen to the testimony of a less-active member we have been working with or when I sit in Sacrament with my investigators, knowing that these people are all growing, and that if I just do my best to be an instrument in the hands of the Gardener, He will make these people grow up to be spiritual sunflowers, or spiritual zucchini, or whatever their calling will be in the kingdom of God. There are of course tons of squirells and rats that get in this garden and try to ruin things, but The Master Gardener knows every corner of His garden and doesn't forget a single plant, and He will nurture them in His time. "Being a part of nature and the anticipation of a harvest is so exciting. I've yet to get a lot of any one thing (except rejections) but that's okay. I'm learning a skill that I hopefully won't have to RELY on in the future, but I can do it for fun now." This IS exciting! And we don't always get what we want, but we get what God gives us. And I won't get to be a missionary forever, but the skills I am learning now will go with me forever. I will be a good member missionary, and a good future companion to someone and this work will bless me and my family forever! Haha and someday my mission stories will be way more annoying to people than garden pictures, but they will always be meaningful to me. :) La Fine.

Here, the work is going really great. We had a pretty hard week with most of our investigators not really being able to see us and not really wanting to keep their commitments. We have been doing all we can to help them progress, but it just isn't happening lately. But then, this weekend was just a miracle weekend. There was a farewell for Giulio Mastino, a 27 yr old boy in the branch who got called to serve in Milano, so we got to invite tons of people to it. They do them really different here. It was a Saturday night and pretty formal. All the missionaries came and I even gave a talk, along with another Elder. Mine was on the joy of misisonary work and it went pretty well, even if I was still pretty nervous. But two of my investigators were crying at the end of it, and they both really were touched by the scriptures and the Spirit, so that was pretty cool. Then later that night, one of them said that she always feels something different when we (her missionaries) talk to her, versus when the members sort of take over our lessons with her and try to teach her. That was kind of an answer to my prayers, because she hasn't really been understanding much, and I know that she will never understand if the Spirit is not the one teaching her. So important to have the Spirit!!!!!!!!!!! Then, Sunday, three of our investigators came to church, and two for the whole time!!! Angela even wore a dress, which she says she hasn't done in twelve years. We gave her a CD with some Mormon Tabernacle hymns on it on Saturday. Sunday, she said she had listened to it before leaving for church, and she said, "I couldn't understand a word of that music, but I felt so good so I wanted to dress nice for church!" Yay Angela!!! The Spirit is TOTALLY working on her and it is SO beautiful to watch!!! Please keep her in your prayers! :)

Now gets graphic... Don't feel bad if you skip this part.

WORM CHEESE. See the little black lines Not dirt...

Okay, so remember how I told all of you about worm cheese? Well, maybe not. It is this cheese that is only in Sardegna and they take it and put it in the ground and let worms eat it and... digest it, then what's left is the cheese they eat. Well, Sunday our friends Daniela and Monia and Andrea had all 8 of us over for Pranzo and at the end, Monia brought out a jar of..... WORM CHEESE!!! 

I just don't know how it happened, one second, I was so not interested, then it was on a piece of really yummy bread in front of my mouth, and then I ate it!!! Hahaha, never doing that again. Kind of tastes like stomach acid, but not as bad, because I also tasted that this week when I threw up. Turns out my stomach doesn't like yogurt cake and chocolate that much after a long bus ride through the country side, sitting backwards. My fault! As Dad always says, "The burnt hand teaches best!"

Sorry about that; mission life has its ups and downs ;)

Some squid at Sandra's house.
We left before dinner was ready.
(It won't let me rotate this picture. Sorry!)

Anyway, we are getting pumped to go to Rome tomorrow and hear the General Authority speak to us! We don't know who it will be, but that is okay. We take a train tomorrow at 10 AM to Caglieri, then a boat at 7 PM all night to Rome. We will arrive at 7 am ish, have the conference, get back on the boat all night, and get here in time for English Course Thursday night at 7. Should be quite the adventure!!!

I am LOVING Sassari and this branch and my comp Sorella Knudsen!! She is from Utah BTW and knows Scott Brimley (body rollz). Needlesstosay, we get along great ;)

Well, this is quite long enough for one day. I love you all!! Have a great week and eat more vegetables and less yogurt cake!!

Love,

Sorella Patterson

March 24, 2014:
Cara Famiglia e cari amici,

At the port, how cute!!
Look at the tiny people next to it; that statue is HUGE 

What an awesome week!! We made it safely to Rome and had an incredible time listening to Elder Kearon speak to us. He is the Area Authority for Europe or something like that. I can't quite remember, but I remember that he is incredible. He was so inspired and talked about everything we needed to hear as missionaries right now. Also, he had an English accent, so he probably could have said anything and it would have sounded beautiful. But really, it was perfect. He boosted us up and sent us away, all wanting to be better missionaries. And then we all got sick. Well, my house. But no worries, we are doing fine.

Our awesome boat crew.
We spent so much time with them, and taught them a couple things.
They were just great.

Alright, shout out time. ANDREA IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andrea who is about to get baptized,
already doing missionary work.
Can you believe this guy?

He has been working so hard for it and has wanted it so bad!!! The Anziani have been teaching him for a couple months, and trying to help him quit smoking, and this week he is entering the sacred waters of baptism to covenant with his Father to live a life for Jesus Christ. It has been a hard process, and he has seen SO many trials of his faith, but his faith in Christ is so great and he is being blessed for it. He seriously is such a special person, and God has plans for him. He is 19, had to leave his house with nowhere to go, just made it into Italian X Factor because of his incredible voice, wants to serve a mission and totally will because he is awesome, and he has found a home in this little Sassari Branch. He is great. He is a part of our little friend group that we have here in Sassari. Alessia, Andrea, Sara, and Daniela are kind of our best friends here. They are incredible people with the biggest hearts and will be life-long friends, without a doubt. It is such a privilege to share the most precious thing that I have with some of the most precious people in the world: my testimony of Jesus Christ as my Savior. I know He lives. I know He loves me, and them. And I love Him, and them!!! I just love these people!!!

So, we as missionaries here try to help a lot of people quit smoking. I have never personally had to do that, so it has been hard for me to understand everything they go through. So I decided to do something crazy. We have this 15 step program we use a lot. Well I wanted to know what it was like, so I decided to try it. Don't worry, I didn't start smoking so that I could learn to stop. But, my comp and I have decided to quit our horrible addiction to sweets for two weeks. Sounds easy, eh? Well, not in Italy where breakfast is supposed to be cookies and milk, and every meal is followed by dessert, without fail. Plus we live with a chef. Anyway, we are going to do the 15 Step program and kick this addiction! Really, I just want to know what I am making these people do, and hope to gain a little better understanding of their trials. I know it won't be perfect, but it's the best I can do. Here goes nothin!

Well, this is a short one, I know. But it is our day to do the spesa, and I am pretty exhausted, so it will have to suffice. Just know that I love you all and that you are all great. OH! one last thing. Remember my Muslim investigator Muhammad from Rome?? Well, when we went there last week, Sorella Haynie told me the Elders that we passed him off to (since he was a young, single man) are baptizing him!!! Well, it should have happened two days ago, hopefully I will hear today. But I am sure it did. But man, that was the best knews ever!! He is such a great guy and just an inspiration. When I get home, ask me about his story, but only if you have time. He is pretty great. I love the gospel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, for real this time. Love you all!!!!!

Sorella Patterson

 The view from our cruise ship we took to Rome.
Sounds exotic, eh?

Cagliari at night from the boat. So beautiful.

March 10, 2014

CIAO TUTTI!!

This week has been SO LONG and SO AWESOME. Seriously. We saw so many miracles and did so much work and we got three new investigators who are all incredible. I will tell you about Francesca and Simone. So one day, actually my first day in Sassari, Sorella Knudsen and I were looking for a place to make copies of the house keys for the other two Sorelle. We asked everyone we saw because no one seemed to know, until we met Francesca. (Okay, she was actually no help, but totally inspired anyways!) After we talked about how far away the key making place was, she pointed to my Book of Mormon and said she used to have one! (Okay, as I write this, I feel like I have written it before...) Long story short, she told us to come back tomorrow, and then we did and she wasn't there and then we came back a couple times and she was never there. BUT. Friday, we were walking this old man to his car and we passed her house and she was on her balcony and waved to us and said ciao, so afterwards we went back and she let us in and we had a great first lesson on the Book of Mormon! Simone is her boyfriend who she lives with. He didn't like us at first because he thought we were this other religion that does the same thing we do, but they aren't always super nice (...), so he didn't want to talk at first, but then she told him we were different and he sat down and listened for a bit and then they both agreed to take the lessons! Yesterday, we went back and taught them about the Restoration and Simone only came in at the end, so we had to review it again for him, but it was awesome becasue then Francesca taught him some of it that she had just learned a little before! It was so cute!!! They are so awesome and just the cutest and at the end they made a bet with each other to read the Book of Mormon, 2 pages a day, and she made Simone promise to even take notes on the things he read! She gave him her favorite notebook from London!! They are literally too cute!! They are really excited to pray and know if Joseph Smith and Thomas Monson were/are prophets of God. We asked Francesca what it would mean to her if President Monson really was called of God to be a prophet. She said it would mean "la salvezza dell'umanità" or the salvation of mankind. Yeah, she is pretty cool! They are reading and praying and waiting for an answer, and we will meet with them tonight. I am so excited for them!

 Please pray extra hard for Lucia Solinas and Antonella to come to church! They haven't come for the past 2 Sundays and it is really making everything harder for them and for us! We don't really know what else to do if they don't come!

Also, pray for Andrea. He is an investigator that the Anziani are teaching and he is supposed to get baptized this Saturday. He really wants to, like really bad, but he is having trouble quitting smoking. That is sucha huge problem in Italia, EVERYone smokes! So just pray that he will have the strength to give it up for good!

Well this week we will hopefully set some more baptismal dates and see more miracles. We are on a language fast, so no English outside of Emails and English Course. We know that the more diligent we are in every aspect of the work, the more the Lord will bless us with His spirit and the more we will be able to help and find more of His children. So, we are starting with the small and simple things, and making them are strengths. I'll let you know all the great things that are brought to pass!

I love you all so much!! I know that God has a perfect plan for all of us imperfect children!! I know He loves me and you!!!
Love,

Sorella Patterson

PS On sister Waddoups blog are tons of pictures taken by yours truly. She didn't come to our Zone conference, but sent her camera, so I took pics of everyone. Should be some nice selfies on there... ;)

And here they are:

Current Companion, Sorella Knudson

Original Companion and Trainer, Sorella Mistura

March 3, 2014 - Raining Miracles

Cara Madre e tutti,

YAY for Jadarius and his brother who came to church!! And on behalf of every missionary everywhere: THANK YOU to everyone who greeted them and welcomed them and made them feel loved. You are all awesome!! Seriously, that is the best thing in the world. Just last night we missionaries threw an activity in church so we could bring investigators and less-actives. As I was sweeping up afterward, I looked over and saw two English Course students who we had invited standing in a circle with a couple of members and everyone was laughing and smiling and just enjoying the Spirit of Sunday and the beautiful church building and you could see the love in the faces of the members as they got to know these young people and made them feel welcome. It was so beautiful! Member missionary work is SO important, maybe more important than what we do. One of our biggest fears as missionaries is to baptize someone and have them fall away, for whatever reason. But if they feel loved when they come to church and feel needed, they are a lot less likely to fall away. And the members here in Sassari and there in The Colony are SO AWESOME!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, in the last week and a half, we have invited 5 people to get baptized, and two have said yes!! Antonella and Lucia Solinas!!! So awesome!!! We will invite Angela, who we met this morning, tomorrow evening in our lesson. Yeah, it's Pday but Sorella Mastino called uo this morning at 9.30 and said she had a friend who wanted to meet us at 10.00 in church... So we ran up there and got there just in time to clean up a little more from last night and then we had a little church tour with Angela and Sorella Mastino and then we introduced her to the Book of Mormon and we talked for a while. The one thing that really had hit Angela was the picture of Jesus being baptized. She looked at it for a while and just kept saying, "Questo è stupendo." So cool! She wanted to take a picture of it to make a copy for her house! She is so awesome!!

Communque, Sassari is awesome. The work is just going great. We occasionally  

The hail on our balcony in Sassari

have freak hail storms in the middle of an abbastanza nice day, and it's quite colder than they told me it would be here, but Lucia accepted baptism!!! She is doing all she can to build her faith in Christ, and she amazes me!She has quite a difficult life but knows that Christ can help her overcome anything. Please keep her in your prayers, along with Antonella and Angela. They and Lucia Farina will hopefully all have baptismal dates at the end of this week. Pray that they will open their hearts and receive and recognize their answers, and COME TO CHURCH!

Yay for Trek!! Have fun everyone that is going next week!!

So my comp Sorella Knudsen is too great. We have WAY too much fun together, but we are both dedicated so it's good. We've set a lot of goals and we are working hard to reach them, and we are seeing miracles!!!! We actually lived together back in Pescara. We weren't comps, but roommates. However, my trainer is here on the island down in Caglieri, so it's so awesome to see her at zone conferences!

Sorella Cilla telling us these melon slices were good for our skin

Well, it's raining miracles and ice and water, and I am just soaking it all up! I LOVE SASSARI!!!!  I hope I get to stay here for quite some time!!

Love you all so much!!!

Sorella Patterson

PS Did I tell you that I live with a Sorella who studied gourmet cooking in college and does all our cooking, and that her greenie is obsessed with cleaning?  Living the high life here in 

Sassari. :)

February 24, 2014 - Sardinia by Plane

As if they need any motivation here!! This little Branch of Sassari is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot hardly believe that a little group of saints like these exists out here on this island! They are so motivated and so dedicated to the Gospel and to Jesus Christ. It is a small branch of about 20- 30 active members or so, 8 of whom are missionaries :) There is so much to do here and so many people are so ready for the gospel here! My first day here we talked to this lady Francesca to invite her to English Course and she saw my Book of Mormon in hand and said she used to have one of those books. She said that in one of her moves it had been thrown out, though, and asked us to come by in the morning to bring a new one and talk about it. Awesome!! Haha, and that was just day one. I hope I never get transferred from Sassari!!

Info for Mom, and anyone else who wants to read... So I got here by plane, which meant I left one big suitcase at the mission office where it will probably stay for the rest of my misison. I figure if I can survive without it now, on the island, why take it around with me if I get transferred? I can't actually tell you what all is in it. I was packing pretty last minute, as usual, and was kind of throwing stuff here and there, hoping all the essentials made it into the flying bag. I also brought a carry-on bag with me, so it's not quite as bad as 'The Other Side of Heaven' ;) I also filled another carry-on bag, and left that one too, and I think there may have been some essentials in there, because I can't seem to find them here... haha, oh well. Anything I sacrifice to be here in Sassari is a sacrifice well made!

I remember hearing about the rainstorm here last year on my Bday. A lot of our young single adults from Pescara went to help with the rubble. It was really sad and I was worried about my trainer who had been transferred there a month before. But all the missionaries were okay. Still a sad event though.

Haha, yes, I traveled in the flower dress. Of all the things that stayed on the mainland, that could never be one of them! I planned it so that if I only made it to the island with what was in my hands on the plane, I would have lived comfortably for a couple days.

Wow, that is so awesome about Jared and his friend and his home teaching!! What a good kid!! I am so proud to be his sister!! And I can say that about both of my brothers, so I guess I am a pretty lucky girl!! I must have done something really right in the pre-existence to have been blessed with a family like mine, davvero. All of you are awesome and I thank Heavenly Father for you everyday, even the ones that I don't get to see or hear from much in life. I LOVE MY FAMILY! Thank you for getting me where I am so that I can help other people to develop a family like mine!!!! Everyone should be this happy about their family, and they totally can!! That is one of the best things about the gospel, that it teaches us how to have a better family life. I LOVE teaching that to people! Being a missionary is awesome!!

So pumped to have family in Cali to visit!!!! ;)

Shout out to my awesome and sweet cousin Jeremy!!! Clear the roads, Texas!!

Well, fam, sounds like y'all have a busy couple of weeks ahead of you! Have fun in all these awesome adventures that are coming and look for missionary opportunities wherever you go! I love you all and vi auguro una buona settimana!!

Love,
Sorellina Patterson
PS the language here is a very pure Italian, and then there is the Sard dialect, which I am pumped to learn. I didn't learn much in Pescara, and I started to learn a little in Rome, but left so soon! I feel like I could be here a while so I'll try to pick some up along the way :)

To write to Megan, here is the address to the mission office and they will deliver to her once every 6 weeks:

The Italy Rome Mission Office
Piazza Carnaro 20
00141, Roma, Italia